Unjust rule does not last forever.

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind.

The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past.

To make another person hold his tongue, be you first silent.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.

To see a man fearless in dangers, untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body.